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May Day is the most important public celebration in Cuba. This year, which marked the 100th anniversary of Fidel Castro’s birth, carried special significance in light of heightened US aggression. Over 5 million Cubans reportedly mobilized island-wide under the slogan “la patria se defiende” (the homeland must be defended). The largest demonstration took place in Havana in front of the US embassy.

The symbolism of International Workers’ Day was not lost on the White House. President Trump chose that day, May 1, to impose yet more sanctions on top of the already draconian illegal measures …

Eurovision once symbolised a Europe committed to peace, dialogue, and cultural exchange. It was not born as a glitter show. It was created in 1956 as a deliberate peace‑building project — a cultural instrument to rebuild trust in a Europe shattered by war.

EBU, the European Broadcasting Union own historical summaries describe Eurovision idea as:

“a symbol of European unity after the war”
“a cultural bridge between countries that had recently been enemies”
“a peace‑building experiment using television technology”

Academic research confirms this: Eurovision was an early experiment in reconciliation, …

When dealing with the disorganised criminal outfit that is FIFA (the mafia comparison only goes so far), the titan governing body of world football, subpar service and offerings promise to feature. As gulled fans, corporate clients, media hacks and political worthies seek their place at the Men’s FIFA World Cup being held in the US, Mexico and Canada this June, the feeling of being burgled should not be far from their minds. A great tournament of fleecing is in the offing.

Take, firstly, the risks for those seeking to enter the United States to see the matches. Last month, over …

Surprisingly, this piece on World Press Freedom Day (a goddamned day?!@#?) ran in the local rag, now a weekly. The editor just continues to run my stuff, and I do get a few accolades, but again, “Why the hell don’t you just leave us alone …. Just leave this country you despise so much …. Don’t you have anything positive to write about?”

And, interestingly, there is a large population of college-educated folk in Newport and environs, andf an affirmed LGBTQA community. And a larger-than-national ratio of Jews living here. …

Use this interactive platform, created in partnership with Law for Palestine, to show the relationship between statements of genocidal intent by Israeli leaders and the conduct of the Israeli military in Gaza through four thematic chapters: civilian harm, starvation, destruction of infrastructure, and forced displacement. Under international law, the crime of genocide requires both intent to destroy a group, in whole or in part, and the actual execution of one or more genocidal acts. Israeli leaders have made — and …

The Kenyan state has demonstrated a consistent and brutal willingness to deploy state terror against organized political dissent, targeting revolutionary leaders, working-class organizers, and anti-colonial voices with impunity. Past cases have laid bare the state’s methods: the violent abduction, torture, and illegal detention of Comrade Booker Ngesa Omole, Secretary General of the Communist Party Marxist Kenya, followed by the grotesque inversion of reality in which the victim of state torture was framed with fabricated assault charges. Today, as French President Emmanuel Macron co-hosts the France Africa  Summit, rebranded as “Africa Forward 2026” in Nairobi with President William Ruto—announcing €23 billion …

It’s tough to even write about the barbaric savagery of Israel — not just because the research seems to destroy your own humanity but also because it seems like the truth couldn’t possibly be the truth. No government could be this horrific. No military could be this repulsive. And yet they are.

Recently, the facts have begun coming to light about Israel’s use of systematic rape and sexual assault as a weapon. Even the normally pro-Israel, pro-genocide New York Times put out …

Cartel members are not always a congenial bunch. Relations can get frosty and brittle over time. With the United Arab Emirates, membership of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has not been without its troubles, not helped by the increasingly snarky relationship it shares with the group’s de facto leader, Saudi Arabia. To be part of such a group entails mindful restraint, an understanding about production targets and a curbing of individual initiative. The statute of the group states its goal: to “devise ways and means of ensuring the stabilisation of prices in international oil markets …

The G7 economists’ memo from March and the IMF’s April report on global imbalances arrived at the same prescription: China’s current account surplus is excessive and should be cut by boosting consumption.

The diagnosis is wrong. The world economy, especially emerging markets and developing economies, benefits from China’s high saving.

A current account surplus is the excess of national saving over domestic investment. The saving is not lost; it is exported abroad in the form of net capital outflows, with an equivalent increase of China’s financial claims on the rest of the world.

These claims add to …

Summary
Eight pivotal facts about Covid-period (2020-2025) excess mortality are described:

Fact #1: The scale of excess all-cause mortality during the Covid period was 0.13 % of population per year
Fact #2: The Covid-period excess mortality was not caused by a spreading respiratory pathogen
Fact #3: Most Covid-period excess mortality in young adults and the youth is not assigned to respiratory conditions (COVID-19)
Fact #4: Excess mortality during the Covid period was highly heterogeneous, tied to imposed measures and medical protocols in specific jurisdictions and locations and in specific population groups
Fact #5: The …

On May 10, Robert Kagan, the high priest of neoconservative thought, the bell ringer for muscular interventionism and general American meddlesomeness, lamented in The Atlantic that the United States had suffered a unique defeat in its efforts to subjugate Iran. The article says much about Kagan’s own identification with the obvious, some feat given the military fancy and fantasy that continues to blot the current Trump administration.

Be that as it may, he finds the Iran War dishing out a defeat to the United States of unique quality, one that “can neither be repaired nor ignored.” No ultimate American …

There are ages when humanity forgets how to listen, and ours is unmistakably one of them. We speak constantly, argue reflexively, and broadcast without pause, yet we rarely hear anything beyond the echo of our own convictions. The world is saturated with noise but starved of understanding. Listening — once a basic human discipline — has become a fragile and endangered practice.

We listen to respond, not to understand. We listen to defend, not to discern. We listen to win, not to witness.

In this collapse of listening, something fundamental has been forfeited: the capacity to recognize one another’s humanity.

In 2022, a Stanford-trained physician who’d quit her surgical residency to start a continuous-glucose-monitor company was largely unknown outside Silicon Valley wellness circles. Her brother, a Harvard MBA who’d worked in food and pharma consulting, was less known than that.

By 2024, Casey and Calley Means had co-authored a bestselling book, advised a presidential campaign, helped flip RFK Jr. into Trump’s coalition, and become the public faces of “Make America Healthy Again.” In May 2025, Casey was nominated for Surgeon General. In April 2026, the nomination was withdrawn.

Two years from …

The concepts that shaped the minds that eagerly approve of the genocide, buried in the Old Testament and in the history of independent Jewish governing, are targets for extinction, Zionist behavior today includes a messianic endeavor that complements the original political Zionism and aligns with behavior of Jews in ancient history. This is a significant change that demands revelation. Theodore Herzl’s incipient Zionism, promoted by secular Jews, brought havoc to the Middle East; the messianic attachment is creating havoc to the entire world.

No longer are Jews and their religion veiled from criticism; the protective shield of anti-Semitism has been lifted …